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[347] Nikanor says that this line was usually taken with the preceding, so that the infinitives depended upon ἐκέκλετο, and in this some modern editors have acquiesced. But then the transition from the narrative to direct speech is very harsh (see 4.303), and there is no difficulty whatever in making the speech begin as usual immediately after the formal line 346, the infinitives being taken imperatively. Zen. indeed read “ἐπισσεύεσθον”, regarding the dual as equivalent to a plural (1.567). But we ought no doubt to read “ἐπισσεύεσθ᾽, ἐάειν”, with Fick.

The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices. Walter Leaf. London. Macmillan. 1900.

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